英文简介：

An international journal, produced on web and in paper copy, devoted to biomedical research and ethical issues surrounding human conception and the welfare of the human embryo. The period of human embryonic growth covered is between the formation of the primordial germ cells in the fetus until mid-pregnancy. High quality research on lower animals is included if it helps to clarify the human situation. Studies progressing to birth and later are published if they have a direct bearing on events in the earlier stages of pregnancy. Relevant topics include fertility and infertility, contraception, IVF and assisted reproduction, the preimplantation diagnosis of genetic disease, cloning, embryo stem cells, implantation and organogenesis, miscarriage, genetic disorders afflicting the embryo, and their alleviation, fetal operations and treatments, and the growth of embryos affected by these processes to term. Ethical and political topics arising through the treatment and care of various clinical conditions are presented. Counselling, news from wide sources, interviews with leading scientists and clinicians, replies to patients'' queries, a manufacturers'' corner, job opportunities, and other matters of relevance to the journal''s fields of study will be presented on web, paper or both. Patients will not be counselled about their condition.

中文简介：（来自Google、百度翻译）

这是一本国际期刊，以网络和纸质文字制作，致力于围绕人类受孕和人类胚胎福利的生物医学研究和伦理问题。涵盖人类胚胎生长的时期是胎儿中的原始生殖细胞的形成，直到怀孕中期。如果有助于澄清人类情况，则包括对低等动物的高质量研究。如果它们与怀孕早期阶段的事件有直接关系，那么研究将逐步发表。相关主题包括生育和不孕、避孕、试管受精和辅助生殖、植入前遗传疾病诊断、克隆、胚胎干细胞、植入和器官发生、流产、困扰胚胎的遗传疾病及其缓解、胎儿手术和治疗以及胚胎的生长影响。用这些过程来形容。在各种临床条件的治疗和护理过程中产生的伦理和政治议题被提出。咨询、广泛来源的新闻、对主要科学家和临床医生的采访、对患者提问的答复、制造商的立场、工作机会以及与杂志研究领域相关的其他事项都将在网络、论文或两者上呈现。病人不会被告知他们的病情。